Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 2 | ‘ I am devastated by it all . |
| 3 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 5 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 6 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
| 7 | The first Plan identified twenty action points and progress has been made on them all . |
| 8 | The Committee felt that it was their duty to state that in their opinion , before the whole building was completely furnished and every necessary article provided , the total deficiency would not amount to less than £1,000 ‘ Many opulent individuals of the County have hitherto withheld their contributions ; but application by letter has been made to them all ; and no doubt can be entertained by your Committee of their ultimate assistance and support . |
| 9 | However , in an interview with Dutch television on 1 October , the Russian Minister for Culture and Tourism , Yevgeniy Sidorov , did say that the drawings had been ‘ found ’ on Russian soil , and that an invitation had been issued to the Dutch ambassador to come and ‘ verify ’ the collection , which was probably moved last year to the monastery of Pavloviy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) in an attempt by the Pushkin museum 's authorities to save their reputations after repeated accusations had been made against them both by Russians and the Dutch . |
| 10 | Wayne was enchanted to see Hermia and Perdita , and gave the appearance of having been searching for them all day . |
| 11 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 12 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 13 | So are you talking , you 're saying to me that 's a full term 's work ? |
| 14 | So you 're working on it some stage as yet ? |
| 15 | It had been told to him many years ago when he was a boy , shortly after he had arrived in Carewscourt . |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for him all my life . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you all this time , Jane , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ Father , I have been waiting for you all afternoon . ’ |
| 19 | Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all . |
| 20 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 21 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 22 | Lucie , who had been calling to him all the while , unheard above the din , caught him in both arms and ran with him , up the steps and through the chapel door which Izzie was holding open . |
| 23 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 24 | A further advantage for holiday operators is the traditional nature of consumer booking arrangements whereby many millions of pounds are deposited with them several months in advance of the holiday being taken . |
| 25 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 26 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 27 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |
| 28 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 29 | Estelle had appeared to be aroused by it all . |
| 30 | Also — a card was signed and sent with flowers to greet Janice Glen on her birthday and Janice later telephoned the Office to ask for her thanks to be given to you all . |